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From Dusty Boxes to Digital Gold: Transforming Nonprofit Histories into Fundraising Assets with Digital Archives

Allegiance Group

As the founder and CEO of HistoryIT , she works with organizations to photograph and catalog the objects, documents, and images that accumulate over time and turn them into a collection that your team can search through and use. When you hear the term “digital archive,” you likely think of museums, historical societies, or libraries.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) is a partnership of academic and research institutions that had created (with help from Google ) a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. You can read more about our position in the Amicus Brief , which we filed jointly with our peer organization, Learning Ally.

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5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI

The NonProfit Times

However, we quickly learned its limitations and memorized the necessary caveats. AI learns from your feedback. A prompt library is key to ensuring AI response consistency. It can mimic based on what it has learned, but it cannot deal with genuine novelty. But, these capabilities easily extend to rows and columns of data.

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4 ways your site should support year-end virtual fundraising

EveryAction

If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that digital-centric strategies have proven to have many benefits and are here to stay. Here are a few best practices we recommend for nonprofits to maintain high-quality websites: Reduce duplicate files and images. Keep your website organized.

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Infographic Tools for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Having very basic design skills, I was looking for something intuitive and easy to learn that could create an attractive final product. I preferred starting from scratch and using Easel.ly's library of shapes, images, and fonts to create my infographic. Image: Infographic example from Easel.ly. Piktochart.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract.

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